LEED Award Ceremony

LEED Award Ceremony on June 24, 2010
On Thursday, June 24, the Sisters received the LEED Platinum award from the US Green Building Council. Punit Jain, a member of the USGBC Board of Directors, traveled to Holy Wisdom Monastery from St. Louis to present the sisters with the award. Also present at the award ceremony were Paul Hoffman of Hoffman, LLC, Madelyn Leopold of the Aldo Leopold Foundation, John Alberici of Alberici Corp., co-workers at the monastery, AcreMaker donors, volunteers, and other supporters. Click here to view photos from the celebration. To hear sound clips from the ceremony, please click on the following names to listen to a .MP3 file:
- Neal Smith, Holy Wisdom Monastery delivers welcome address (time: 6:09 / 2.8 MB)
- John Alberici, Vertegy – a project of Alberici Corporation (time: 3:19 / 1.5 MB)
- Madelyn Leopold, Aldo Leopold Foundation (time: 3:42 / 1.7 MB)
- Paul Hoffman, Hoffman, LLC (time: 8:17 / 3.8 MB)
- Mark Hanson, Hoffman, LLC (time: 6:47 / 3.1 MB)
- Punit Jain, US Green Building Council (time: 5:50 / 2.7 MB)
- Sisters Mary David Walgenbach, OSB, Lynne Smith, OSB and Joanne Kollasch, OSB reflect on LEED Platinum award (time: 12:25 / 5.7 MB)
- Or listen to the entire award ceremony! (time: 47:51 / 21.9 MB)
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